The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1887-06-17

Tue proposition ID now before Cne local parlla.
ment To vote al,0OO for landing 10 San Fran.
cisco all the worst Of these men, a. they will
not be received in Tahiti or elsewhere. The
French government, be ais says, are Offering
q subsidy Of el90 per month for q steamer to
ruu between Neoume and Tahiti and thence
TO San Francisco, for the purpose Of assisting
the emigrants to America.
FOREIGN,
The sultan has coded the Island of Cyprus
to England.
Gen. Boulanger has been offered the com.
nsnd Of an army corps. ..
The tinsl estimate of Che lives lost in the
opera comiquc 1t Paris is placed at 1870.
Prof. Thomas Spencer Baynes one of the
editors Of the Cyclopedta Britannica, is dead.
Storms have caused great damage to crops
in the districts of Temcsvar and Baxias in
Hungary.
Bayley, vlce-commodore of the royal Albert
yacht club, has been declared u bankrupt.
liabilities, e67,OOO.,
A monster procession was organized ut
Swansea, In honor of Gladstone. Great en-
thusiaem was manifested. Gladstone smoke
for an hour.
A Mcrv dispatch says the Afghans mur-
dered fourteen Bokharan officials at Kerki,
because they refused to incite the Inhabitants
to resist a Russian advance.
1t has been proved beyoad a doubt that the
steamer Sir John Lawrence was lost in the
recent cyclone of the coast of Calcutta. The
steamer carried 78O passengers, and It is be-
lieved all were lost. The largest part of the
passengers were ladies en- route to Jugger.
naut, In Orisss, to celebrate the Juggernaut
festival.
A letter from Santiago De Cuba, dated May
?7,says' At this writing $50 cases OF smallpox
are known to exist, and It is estimated that
100 more are being treated by charlatans.
The deaths In this city from the 1st to th27th
numbered forty, not one of the victims hay.
ing been vaccinated. The disease has spread
in Guantanamo.
Zcgedfn is crowded with fugitives from the
submerged districts of Austria. Great anxiety
is felt, as all attempts to repair the dykes
have proven futile. One hundred thousand
acres of splendid wheat crops have been de-
stroyed. Great indignation is expressed
against the contractors for the dykes, which
cost e1,0oo,0OO.
1t is rumored that the British government
bribed the Turkish grand vizicr and other
Officers Of the porte to consent to the ~ratiaca.
tion Of the Anglo-Turkish treaty. The French
and Russian ambassadors have filed ohjec.
items to the treaty. 1t Is limited that IL the
sultan ratiies the treaty the powers may de-
mand and secure his deposition.
Acircular has been sent to a thousand
representative members of the Wesleyan
church, asking their opinion Of the govern.
ment Irish coercion bill. sixty-threc per
cent. of those who received the circular con-
denim the measure; of the minority a large
number condemn the proposed law but refuse
to sigh the petitions against it on the GROUND
they do not approve, as members OF tue
church, of meddling with politics.
Extensive robbcrics have taken place in the
postofice at Barcelona, Spain, and for some
time past detectives were put at work.
who traced the crime to employees OF the of
flee. Tic guilty officials have been suspended
and arrested. An investigation into the rob.
berries shovel there was much loosencss in the
method OF conducting the postofllce system,
and the disclosure will campcl the govern
mcnt to adopt rigorous postal rcforme.
A roustng railroad meeting was held ut
Sioux City on Thursday night to consider the
possibility of voting a two per cent. tax to aid
the building of the Sioux City and North.
eastern railroad, extending from Sioux CITY
to Ltvermorc and tapping the Rock Island
system, and also aiding the buildiHg of a line
north to Marshall, MINI. Speeches were made
by leading citizens. Sioux City will put
or.h united effort to secure direct connection
with New York and the north.
Paris dispatches say that the police author.
tiles are keeping from the public the actual
number OF deaths resulting from the Opera
Comique fire. Many bodies, La France says,
have becn4 taken from the ruins at various
times and removed to the morguc unknown
to the people. La France estimates the NUN.
Der of lives lost by the fire at over 200.
Madame Blondel, the lady who was at the
theater when the fire broke out, has died from
the effects Of nervous fright experienced In
her escape from the burning building.
The Novoe vremya says Russia never
agreed to regard Afghsnistan as outside her
influence. Continuing, the paper says: 1--WE
can only suppose England cherishes the in.
tentton Of profit by the present disorders in
Afghanistau and become mistress Of the
country. In that case Russia would demand
serious guarantees, and Englsnd's proximity
would not embarrass Russia's position in
central Asia, and II England refused to give
the guarantee Russia would take such mea.
sures regarding the Afghan frontier provinces
which she deemed expedient, and would not
be concerned whether theywere agreeable to
England or not"
Mr.. John Gutmon, Sherman, Ky.,
writes: 81 have used st. Jacobs Oil
for ten years. It always cured the
toothache in about ton minutes" Sold
by druggists and dealers
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An Iowa Missionary Eaten Up.
Dies MONIES, June 6.-News has just been
received at Manson, Calhoun county, that
Rev. DR.. Reid, who left that place last winter
TO become 2 missionary In Southern Africa, |
had been killed and eaten by . tribe of canni.
balls. He 10 the 6rst Iowa missionary who
been cannibslixed.